Cleaning Up After SVN

If you’re using SVN for keeping your source safe for web apps, you may notice uploading the working folder also uploads all those hidden .svn folders. Not ideal.

Here’s the shell command to delete all those .svn files from your working directory:

find -d "your/working/directory" -name ".svn" -exec rm -r '{}' ; -print

The -d flag (-depth) means the find command will “process each directory’s contents before the directory itself” so the rm (delete) command won’t complain it can’t find a file in the structure it just deleted.

(I am not responsible if this screws up your project, I assume if you’re a developer and you’re using SVN you *should* know what you’re doing. However, just in case you don’t, once you run this command you won’t be able to update your working copy, nor commit or anything else, so… [insert cautionary advice here])